Archive for the ‘How To’ Category
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
This article looks at how to use a local data source in a Web Intelligence report and then combine that data with data retrieved from a data warehouse.
Business Scenario
The worked example described here is to create a simple dashboard style report of sales data. We then highlight the sales figures ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
This article compares data analysis using Web Intelligence to the same workflow using Microsoft Excel and for the given scenario demonstrates why using Web Intelligence is quicker, easier and less error prone.
The objective here is not to show that in all cases Web Intelligence is better than Excel rather to ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
This articles looks at configuring the following components,
SAP Business Objects Data Services XI3.2
SQL Server Express 2005
Tomcat 5.5
JDK 1.6
The JDK 1.6 is not supported and indeed when trying to configure the Management Console to connect to a repository created in SQL Server Express 2005 we get the following error,
Java Runtime Environment ...
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
A geometric mean is an average that is useful for sets of numbers that are interpreted according to their product and not their sum as is the case with the more commonly known arithmetic mean. An example of where you would use a geometric mean is in financial reporting when ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Summary
This article looks at a reporting requirement where we need to restrict data to the latest data, for example, to only show the latest account balance or the latest action item for work streams in a project.
Our solution is to implement a series of predefined conditions one for each dimension ...
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